Over the course of six live-action films — half of them starring Tom Hardy’s gooey antihero Venom — the studio tried to carve out a Marvel Cinematic Universe of its own, putting Spider-Man ...

The story of the boxer Claressa Shields could have been just another sports movie. Directed by Rachel Morrison and penned by Barry Jenkins, it’s much more than that. By Alissa Wilkinson Adrien ...

Its civilian population suffered a five-year siege by famine, some of the worst chemical attacks of the conflict, and a brutal repression that emptied their homes and razed their streets, turning the ...

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” ...